These are the years of the mass conquest of wellbeing and easy optimism. In reality, they are years of great transformations that see the image of cities and countryside profoundly change as a result of industrialisation, urbanization, motorisation, and advertising communication, now also present in cinema and television.
Facing stereotyped representations of consumer society, Vietri’s works offer a critical reflection and sound the alarm on the negative consequences of uncontrolled economic development. In his works appear people with pensive faces silhouetted against smoky backgrounds, chipped walls where truncated inscriptions evoke political facts and collective events, shared myths and advertising slogans, bare trees crossed by electric wires, semi-dark urban landscapes and large suburban roads that seem to run through landfills.
Polesine and countryside
(Wax) drawing and black and white painting (tempera) are a constant in Vietri’s artistic production: studies, notes, diary, but also a specific expressive choice to represent particular themes such as the floods in the Po delta and the padano-venete countryside.
Gallery
Vietri’s iconography appears here in its entirety, Faces and People, Squares and Streets, Cars and Houses, Trees and Countryside to tell the story of mass society through its own language, that of the mass media.
Events & News
Highlights of special moments, near and far.
